Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 92: Recovery

Chapter 92: Recovery

The big chef whose name she had yet to know was sobbing uncontrollably.

"Calm down." Chi Lian handed her a bottle of water and covered her with a thick blanket.

The woman was too absent minded to wonder where these items were coming from.

"Last year, when it was time for me take my qualifying exams in the capital, I suddenly fell sick. My sense of smell suddenly died and I couldn’t even taste what I cook anymore.

The hospital did every test but they found nothing wrong with my body. With no choice left, I gave up on the test. My father was disappointed but instead of giving up, he chose to go everywhere in the empire with me looking for a cure for my ailment.

We found a traditional Chinese medicine expert who said that I had been poisoned. We were both shocked to hear this. How could I have been poisoned? All the food I ate during that time frame was prepared from home including all the ingredients. We grow and process everything ourselves.

Only someone with access to me and our ingredients could have poisoned me. We rushed back to the capital only to find that that woman had taken the exam in my place and she was now one of the royal chefs."

Chi Lian did not need to hear more to understand the story. She could already see the plot development.

"So your friend, poisoned you, stole your recipes and your position. Is that why you want to kill yourself?" She asked.

"No." The woman sighed and cried before continuing.

"My father was killed by a drunk driver in a car accident last week. I have no proof but I know that she has a hand in it. My father had threatened to expose her. The poison is incurable, my father is dead and his death was ruled an accident. " The woman ’s shoulders fell. "There is nothing left to live for."

"You have really given up." Chi Lian stated just to be one hundred percent sure.

"Yes, I have no reason to live anymore, so you can go and save someone else, I am going back into the water."

Despite her words, Chi Lian noticed that she was tightly holding on to the blanket. Desperately, she was holding on to its warmth and she was not even aware of her own actions.

This was not a woman who wanted to die. She wanted to live, she just needed a way out.

"What if I cure your poison, will you still jump?"

"That’s not possible, the doctor said_"

"Yes or no, lets not waste time. If I cure the poison, will you still choose death?"

The woman remained silent for a while. Then in a resolved voice she replied, "I want to live. My father’s training cannot be wasted and I want revenge."

"T4, how many drops of that poison antidote should I give her?"

"One is enough."

Chi Lian walked over to the woman with a tiny bottle. "Open your mouth." she said.

"What’s that?"

"The cure."

"You can trust me or I walk away." she threatened.

The woman opened her mouth and Chi Lian dropped a drop of a green liquid into her mouth.

A few seconds later, the woman was hunched over and vomiting black liquids from her mouth.

When the last of it came out, she rinsed her mouth with the water Chi Lian had given her.

"What’s that?" She asked "It tastes so bitter?"

Chi Lian stood up and told the woman to follow her.

"Hey, what’s that? Don’t ignore me." she persistently asked.

"You just said it tastes bitter, what does that mean?"

"That it tastes bitter." She answered with oblivion.

Chi Lian wanted to ask the woman how she kept recipes in her mind with a poor memory like hers.

"You can taste again, why are you so slow?"

"Oh, I have my taste buds back, and I can smell things." the woman screamed joyfully and suddenly starting sniffing everything and everyone she came across like a dog.

Chi Lian wanted to cover head in shame. Everyone was looking at them warily, as if they were clowns or weirdos.

"Stop that." she pulled the woman away from the man whose back she was sniffing. The man’s girlfriend or wife looked like she was a few seconds away from fighting the big chef. "Sorry." Chi Lian apologized to them.

"He-he." the woman laughed nervously and followed Chi Lian.

"Hey, what’s your name?" Chi Lian asked.

"Cui Sitong, savior, what’s your name?"

"Chi Lian, Lady Chi Lian." she emphasized the lady.

"Lady, are you from the British Empire? Is your family a noble one?" The big chef asked excitedly.

"No." Chi Lian replied dryly.

"Oh that’s too bad." The big chef’s eyes lost their bright excitement. " I have read so many romance novels about dukes and Earls from their Empire. I thought you would know if the stories are based on real life." She said dreamily.

Chi Lian laughed and hmped. This woman sounded like a hopeless romantic.

"It’s all fiction. " She told her.

"No," the woman shook her head wildly. "I refuse to believe it. If you can call yourself a lady, so can I. From now on like my savior, I am the lady big chef."

Chi Lian increased her pace. The faster she got away from the big chef, the sooner she would be with her daughter.

Noticing that she was being left behind, the talkative big chef quickened her steps and run after Chi Lian. A short distance later, the woman stopped walking and squatted in the road.

"Lady savior, I am hungry." She complained.

Chi Lian reached into her pocket, got some money and gave it to the woman.

"Here, use this money to take a taxi to a hotel, book a nice room and have some nice food."

The woman avoided the woman like a plague.

"Lady savior, you cannot be seriously considering leaving me behind?"

Her eyes were turbulent and teary. "You are all I have left now, what am I to do without you?" With determination, the woman said, " You saved my life, you are responsible for me."

"Host, the big chef just tried to commit suicide. She cannot be left alone under such circumstances lest the mission reward be vacated."

"She talks too much." Chi Lian complained.

"But she may be helpful in future, she may help you earn a large sum of money." T4 threw some bait in.